Environment on the Edge is a series of lectures given by leading
international figures that examine our current relationship with the
natural world and discuss what tomorrow might bring.
The lecture series, which continues in 2008-2009, is a joint collaboration
between Murray Edwards College and St Edmund's College, Cambridge University, the United
Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre
(UNEP-WCMC) and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS). The lecture series and
the production of the accompanying publications are made possible by the generosity of the Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge.
Some of the world's leading environmental scientists are coming to Murray Edwards College to continue the series of lectures on how our relationship with the natural world is shaping our present and future priorities.
Lectures are held at 5.15 p.m. in Buckingham House Lecture Theatre, Murray Edwards College.
Admission is free; to reserve a place please email: directorate@unep-wcmc.org
"Environment on the Edge" is sponsored by Cambridge Centre for Energy Studies, and presented by UNEP-WCMC, Murray Edwards College, St Edmund's College and the British Antarctic Survey.
Texts of the 2004-5, 2005-6, 2006-7 and 2007-8 series of lectures have been published as booklets and are available online here or from the College Secretary, Murray Edwards College, free of charge.
The Environment on the Edge 2008-2009 series confirmed dates:
- 24 April 2008 - Ocean Acidification: the other CO2 problem. Speaker is Professor Nick Owens, Director, BAS
- 1st May 2008 - International Environmental Governance. A lecture by Professor Bob Watson, Chief Scientific Adviser, DEFRA
- 30 October 2008 - 30 October 2008 - The New Food Security Debate: Should the UK produce as much of its own food as possible? A lecture by Professor Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University.
- 27 November 2008 - Understanding Environmental Risk Perceptions: Climate Change, Energy Choices and Public Engagement with Science.
- 22 January 2009 - Can Climate Engineering be a Sensible Plan B? A lecture by Dr Steve Koonin, Chief Scientist, BP.
- 12 February - Darwin in his time and in ours. A lecture by Professor Lord Robert May, Department of Zoology, University of Oxford.
- 19 March 2009 - "The Arctic on the Edge: Policy issues in Canada's backyard"
- 30 April 2009 - Beyond GDP Growth: Measuring real progress in a developing country
The Environment on the Edge 2007-2008 series lecturers
- 11th October 2007 - Northern Ireland - An Environment on the Edge - Professor Sharon Turner, Chair of Environmental Law, School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast
- 24 January 2008 - "Travelling First Class on the Titanic" - Speaker is Baroness Young, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency
- 14 February 2008 - "The economics of climate change: governments, companies and households" - Lord Adair Turner, former Director-General, CBI
- 6 March 2008 - Speaker is Professor Sian Griffiths, Professor of Public Health, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Environment on the Edge 2006-2007 series lecturers:
- 26 October 2006 - Europe's future: Environment at the heart or on the edge? - Professor Jacqueline McGlade
Executive Director of the European Environment Agency
- 30 November 2006 - Are we running out of oil? - Dr Jeremy Leggett
author of "Half Gone" and CEO of Solar Century; and Dr Ian Vann, Group Vice-President, Exploration & Production, BP.
Moderator is Professor Bernie Bulkin
- 18 January 2007 - The effects of the Sanxia Dam on the Yangtze - Professor Zhang Jing
Key State Lab of Coastal & Estuarine Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai
- 15 February 2007 - Humans and the Global Carbon Cycle: A Faustian Bargain? - Professor Berrien Moore III, Director, Institute for the study of Earth, Oceans and Space (EOS), University of New Hampshire
- 15 March 2007 - Valuing Sustainability: evaluating environmental, social and economic factors - Richard Saxon CBE, Vice-President RIBA, principal of Consultancy for the
Built Environment, former chairman of BDP and of 'Be'
- 26 April 2007 - Transport: a case of systemic sclerosis - Dr David Fisk, BP/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair at Imperial College in Engineering for Sustainable Development and co-director BP Urban Energy Systems project.
- 17 May 2007 - Northern Ireland - An Environment on the Edge - Professor Sharon Turner, Chair of Environmental Law, School of Law, Queens' University, Belfast.
The Environment on the Edge 2005-2006 series lecturers:
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Dr Klaus Töpfer, UN Under Secretary General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
- Mme Zhao Baige, Vice-Minister for Population, People's Republic of China
- Professor Tom Burke, Visiting Professor at Imperial and University Colleges, London and co-founder of E3G
- Dr Sue Ion, President, British Nuclear Energy
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Dr Hans R Herren, President of the Millennium Institute
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Professor Anne Power, Department of Social Policy, London School of Economics.
- Dr Kathryn Fuller, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Chair, Board of Trustees, The Ford Foundation; Past President, World Wildlife Fund U.S.
The Environment on the Edge 2004-2005 series lecturers:
- Sir Crispin Tickell, GCMG, KCVO, DCL, Chancellor of the University of Kent
- Dr Jane Lubchenco, Wayne and Gladys Valley Professor of Marine Biology,
Distinguished Professor of Zoology, Oregon State University
- Professor Chris Rapley, CBE, Director, British Antarctic Survey
- Dr Cristián Samper, Director of the National Museum of Natural History,
Smithsonian Institution
- Dr Bernard Bulkin, Chairman of AEA Technology.
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